Friday, October 7, 2011

D.C.'s Dot Dash To Open For Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell (And A Free MP3!)

It's fitting that D.C.'s Dot Dash are going to open for a revamped version of The Chameleons in November as these guys sound a touch like Chameleons spin-off The Sun and The Moon.

There's a bit of D.C. rock royalty in Dot Dash: Terry Banks (guitar and voice) was in Julie Ocean, Tree Fort Angst, and The Saturday People; Hunter Bennett (bass) was also in Julie Ocean; Bill Crandall (guitar) was in Modest Proposal; and drummer Danny Ingram was in so many bands that there's probably only space to mention the biggies: Youth Brigade, the criminally underrated Strange Boutique, radioblue, and -- oh yeah -- he was the touring drummer in friggin' Swervedriver when they were at their absolute peak!

The band will be opening for Hugh Cornwell, one-time lead singer of punk/new wave/alternative legends The Stranglers, in Rockville at Montgomery College on Friday, October 21, 2011.

Named after a Wire song, Dot Dash rock with an edge; the cut starts off like something from that first Editors album but where those guys tried to sound like Ian Curtis-aping robots -- (the reason I don't like Interpol very much, either!) -- Dot Dash bring a human warmth to their Brit-inspired US noise.

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Born in Washington, D.C., in 1967, I spent most of my life in Maryland before I moved to Hong Kong at the very end of 2011. I worked in Kowloon, and lived on Lamma Island, for nearly 3 years, and then I moved back to Maryland with my wife at the end of August 2014. When I was younger, I worked in 3 record stores in College Park, Maryland, from 1987 to 1990 and those jobs gave me a lot of joy, as well as a musical education. I was once a huge fan of the cinema of Hong Kong, especially Shaw Brothers titles. An Anglophile, I still gravitate to British films and music. My youth was spent on Marvel comics, and Starlog and Famous Monsters magazines; Universal and Hammer horror movies; the work of Ray Harryhausen; classic American films of the 1930s; Hanna-Barbera cartoons; music from the glory days of American AM radio; lousy TV reruns; Mego toys; and Godzilla flicks...